Wheatland David Barbara Carson (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto (4to); 204pp. Bound in full red buckram cloth with armillary sphere gilt top board, spine titles gilt, still in original onion-paper wrapper. Very good copy; printed by the Meriden Gravure Company.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor wear. Very Good+ condition. A nice copy. 204 pages, illustrated. Book.

hardcover. Condition: very good. First. Well-illustrated throughout, 6 in color. 204 pages. Tall 4to, red cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. First edition. gift inscription at top of title page, else a very good(+) copy. Interesting items in the Harvard Collection.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. No Jacket (as published). First Edition. "Collection of historical scientific instruments" bound in red decorated buckram, sans DW, as published; light staining to front forward panel extremity; decorated end-papers; tipped-in color plates; black & white illustrations; 204pp. A most acceptable copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 204 pages, six tipped in color lithographic plates, numerous black & white in text illustrations, pictorial end papers, red cloth with gilt design on front cover, black spine label, quarto.

Hardcover. First edition. Fine/No Jacket (17656) No dust jacket, as issued. About fine in attractive decorated red boards. This first edition has numerous tipped-in color plates. . 203.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A clean tight copy showing light shelf wear bound in red cloth with black and gilt spinal label.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xii, [204] pp; well illus. (some tipped-in color plates). Original cloth, 4to. Very Good+, without dust jacket (as issued). 'Describes and illustrates the approximately 85 instruments, mainly by the 'better' London makers, in the Harvard collection. Gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard' (R. W. Home, The History of Classical Physics, A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1984, no. 523).…

Hardcover. First edition. NEW clothbound hardcover with gilt on black titling to the spine and a gilt design to the front in the original glassine jacket in the original mailing box. This copy is from the estate of an employee of the printer, Meriden Gravure, and appears to have been hardly opened before we acquired it. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs of about 85 items related to many of the scientific disciplines, drawn from the collection of Harvard University. The instruments are grouped by discipline and include telescopes, astronomical measurement equipment, astronomical models, clocks, surveying and drafting tools, microscopes, biological specimens, mineralogical specimens, and items related to mechanics, hydraulics, vacuum, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, and chemistry. The text "gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard." Text by David P. Wheatland with Barbara Carson. xi + 204 pages; 4 tipped-in color plates + many b&w illustrations; 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, [204] pp; illus. 4to. Original cloth. Very Good. This book does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. SIGNED BY DAVID WHEATLAND: "To Dave & Connie Clement/ may they forgive the strong Harvard/ emphasis in these accounts-Yale has some fine apparatus too./ Dave Wheatland/ 4-20-72." "Describes and illustrates the approximately 85 instruments, mainly by the 'better' London makers, in the Harvard collection. Gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard" (Home no. 523). Signed by Author(s).…

204pp. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates and many black and white illustrations 2 very small very light cover discolorations/stains, else Fine/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 204pp. Red cloth, gilt-stamped design on front, black spine label gilt-stamped. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and sketches, color plates tipped in. Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.…